Open Library
Biography
Real lives, stranger than fiction.
From the Ruins of Empire
Pankaj Mishra
The Canadian portrait gallery
John Charles Dent
Notes to Self
Emilie Pine
Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage
Richard Holmes
20th Century Journey
William L. Shirer
Ambassador's journal
John Kenneth Galbraith
The literary life and correspondence of the Countess of Blessington
Richard Robert Madden
Purcell
J. A. Westrup
My lifetime in letters
Upton Sinclair
Walter Lippmann and the American century
Ronald Steel
Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest
Agnes Strickland
Walden and Other Writings
Henry David Thoreau
Anatole France
David Tylden-Wright
Enter night
Mick Wall
Autobiographic sketches
Thomas De Quincey
Balzac
Stefan Zweig
Trotsky
Ian D. Thatcher
Karsh
Yousuf Karsh
Memoirs of celebrated female sovereigns
Mrs. Anna Jameson
Oleander, Jacaranda
Penelope Lively